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I love the idea of a hardware ad-blocker for the home. I'm not very competent with command line stuff so just doing simple things takes ages and doesn't always work... Will try this regardless.
Just need to find my micro sd to sd adaptor...
Well_is_it-
Nor am I, it was a total piece of piss.
Use etcher to copy raspbian image onto an sd card (in a Windows PC). I didn't use the fancier "desktop" version of raspbian. Smaller, lighter one is fine. There are a bunch of step by step guides for this bit online.
Connect a monitor and keyboard to the rpi and stick the sd in. Plug in power and follow the basic settings thing to turn on ssh, set a password, set time zone etc. Do the get-apt upgrade or whatever the commands are (again, all over the Internet).
Then, do the one terminal command that's on the pihole site and it'll download and install pihole.
Remember the ip and password it gives you, then go to a browser (mobile is fine), type the IP in and find the nice straightforward GUI. Follow the couple of instructions on the pihole site regarding pihole and your router and you're all set.
TurtleRecall
Original Pi B is plenty powerful enough for PiHole, which (thus far) seems to be the best real-world use for a Raspberry Pi. Would recommend.
In other Pi news, looked a bit further into OMV and it appears it's got torrent and plex plugins available, so will be giving that a try hooked up to a 4TB WD external drive this weekend.